David Dalcu
Software Engineering Manager at Upstart
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid Dalcu is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams and shipping full-stack cloud-native applications from Jacksonville, FL. He has progressed from hands-on developer roles to senior management at companies like Web.com, Freedom Mortgage, Xpanse, and currently Upstart, blending Java/Spring backends, modern frontends (Svelte/React), and AWS/Kubernetes platforms. Known for coaching engineers and making decisive technical trade-offs, he repeatedly delivers production services using serverless and containerized architectures (Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, Kubernetes). His background spans legacy modernization, CI/CD and operations work—having managed servers, CI systems, and messaging middleware—so he’s comfortable both architecting and troubleshooting at the stack level. Colleagues rely on him to translate business goals into pragmatic engineering roadmaps while keeping teams autonomous and focused on delivery.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
apple-silicon10
spring-boot-starter10
user-authentication10
mysql9
openai-api9
spring9
summernote9
jpa9
macos8
image-generation8
wysiwyg8
zig8
agent8
inference8
javascript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ddalcu/spring-starter
Jan 2015 - Jan 2022
A spring-boot-starter application, with user authentication, registration, JPA using mysql.
Contributions:45 commits, 3 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 years
jpamysqlspringuser-authentication
ddalcu/mlx-serve
Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
Native LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. OpenAI + Anthropic API compatible. No Python. Includes MLX Core macOS app with chat, agent mode, and tool calling.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 55 pushes in 5 months
anthropicapple-siliconllm-inferencemacosopenai
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